The Shins, Art Brut, Metric and More On Sale

March 26, 2009 by Devorah Klein  

Lots of great shows going on sale tomorrow (Friday), including a 5-night Art Brut residency at Mercury Lounge and two Passion Pit shows. All the details are below:

  • Ben Harper and the Relentless 7 on May 5 at Webster Hall and May 8 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Tickets
  • Kate Voegele at Highline Ballroom on May 13. Tickets
  • The Shins at Wellmont Theatre on May 17 and Terminal 5 on May 18. Tickets
  • Mos Def and Talib Kweli (under the name Black Star) will be at Nokia Theater on May 30, performing two shows–one at 7 pm and one at 11:30 pm. Tickets
  • Art Brut is celebrating the release of their new album, Art Brut vs. Satan (out May 12) on June 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 at Mercury Lounge. Five night passes available. Tickets
  • Jonathan Richman and Vic Chesnutt at Bowery Ballroom on June 16 and 17. Tickets
  • Indigo Girls and Matt Nathanson are at Central Park Summerstage on June 16. Tickets
  • Metric, who have a new album called Fantasies coming out, are at Terminal 5 on June 17. Tickets
  • Passion Pit are at Bowery Ballroom June 19 and 20. Tickets
  • Camera Obscura are at Webster Hall on June 24. Tickets
  • Meat Puppets are at Mercury Lounge on June 11 and 12. Tickets

What To Do This Weekend

August 8, 2008 by Devorah Klein  

If you aren’t at the All Points West Festival this weekend, check out these other shows:

Friday:

Lila Downs @ Prospect Park Bandshell (Free)

Hercules and Love Affair @ Irving Plaza

Black Sheep, Jamie Drastik, and Pimp Ninja @ Highline Ballroom (Free)

Tapes N’ Tapes @ Sound Fix (Free)

Cass McCombs @ South Street Seaport (Free)

Iggy and the Stooges @ Terminal 5

Boredoms’ 88BoaDrum @ Williamsburg Waterfront (Free but tickets required)

The Germs, Murphy’s Law @ Gramercy Theater

Metric and the Black Angels @ Highline Ballroom

Saturday:

Hal Willner’s Bill Wither’s Project @ Prospect Park Bandshell (Free)

An Unexpected Mexico with Alejandro Escoveda, Pistolera, and Kinky @ Central Park Summerstage (Free)

Grizzly Bear and Violens @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Rooftop Films present Bell and films @ Old American Can Factory

Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival @ the Yard

Sunday:

The Felice Brothers, Eli (Paperboy) Reed, Langhorne Slim, and Deer Tick @ McCarren Park Pool

Langhorne Slim DJing @ Sound Fix (Free)

Margot and the Nuclear So & Sos, Dirty on Purpose @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Lucero @ Rocks Off Concert Cruises

88BoaDrum Drummers Announced

August 4, 2008 by Devorah Klein  

Well, the free tickets are “sold out” so if you are one of the lucky ones for the Boredom’s August 8 event on the Williamsburg waterfront, then get psyched for this awesome line-up of drummers…with one left as a TBA. Who will it be??

Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs / Stars Like Fleas / Thurston Moore / Eye Contact / Lone Wolf and Cub)
Chris Brokaw (Come/ ffffflashlights/ Thurston Moore’s New Wave Bandits)
Will Shmee (Knox Dad)
Suzanne Rogaleski (Lone Wolf and Cub / Badmittons)
Alex Holden (Big Numbers)
Brian Mcleod (Modest Mouse / Lights / Love as Laughter)
Torbitt Schwartz (Chin Chin / Reverend Vince Anderson)
Jaleel Bunton (TV on the Radio / Reverend Vince Anderson)
Brian Tamborello (Psychic Ills)
Jim Siegel (Ning Nong Radio)
Greg Anderson (Oakley Hall / Windsor for the Derby)
Dreiky Caprice (Crash Worship)
Matt Heyner (Malkuth / No-Neck Blues Band)
Joseph Stickney (Bear In Heaven / Rhys Chatham / Paul Duncan)
Matt Sweeney (Chavez / Zwan / Neil Diamond)
Samara Lubelski (Hall of Fame / Thurston Moore’s New Wave Bandits)
Pete Nolan (Magik Markers / Spectre Folk)
Abby Portner (Rings / Hex Message)
Tom Peyton (Fakers / KGB)
John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man)
Andrya Ambro (Talk Normal)
David Sparks
Spencer Herbst (Matta Llama)
Timothy Monaghan (J.A.C.K.)
Andrew Barker (Gold Sparkle Band)
Joseph Noll (My Best Fiend)
Dave Witte (Municipal Waste)
Nick Lesley (Necking / Gunung Sari)
Jim Sykes (Parts and Labor)
Michael Evans (God Is My Co-Pilot)
Dong-Ping Wong (Necking)
Spencer Sweeney
Nondor Nevai (Aborted Christ Child)
Jonathan Lockie (Sightings)
Dave Bergander (Celebration)
Jules Scott Key (Metric / Bang Lime)
Yuval Lion (Pink Noise)
Ronnie Seward (Whooping Crane)
Corinne Jones (Effi Briest)
Adam Lee (Let’s Go Bowling)
Nancy Garcia (Monotract / Thurston Moore)
Ben McConnell  (Phosphorescent)
Pascal Spengemann (Hex Message)
Speck Brown (Orphan)
Laura Rogers (The Rogers Sisters)
Rupert Clervaux (Sian Alice Group)
Kyle Warren (Dinowalrus)
Adam Marnie (The Mess of New Mexico)
Alex Epton (Spank Rock / XXXchange)
Otto Hauser (Espers / Bert Jansch / Vashti Bunyan)
Nick DeCarmine (Slow Dynamte)
Frank Haines (Blanko and Noiry)
Brian Deran
Marcus Burrowes (Rockersnyc)
Avi Cohen (Soiled Mattress and the Springs / Silk Flowers
Emmy Miller (Xtreme Violence / The Peppermints)
Ryan Tozzi
Oran Canfield (Child Abuse)
Erik Rappin (A.R.E. Weapons)
Matt McCauley (A.R.E. Weapons)
Brian McPeck (A.R.E. Weapons)
Brian Weitz (Animal Collective)
Kyle Simon (Baby Talk)
Danny Tunick (Arnold Dreyblatt / Fakers)
Leah Moskowitz (Bloody for Me)
Joe Wong (Parts and Labor)
Nathan Corbin (Excepter)
Hamish Kilgour (Clean and the Great Unwashed / Samara Lubelski)
Linnea Vedder Shults (LIGHTS)
Lacy Lancaster (Durty Nanas)
Kathleen Cholewka (Les Sans Culottes / Discovery)
Noah Lennox (Panda Bear / Animal Collective)
James Buonantuono (Other Passengers / Ruby Glass)
Sadie Laska (I.U.D. / Extreme Violence)
Keith Connolly (No-Neck Blues Band)
Jason Mills
James Corrigan (ON?OFF / Wool, Rivers)
Miles Levy (Malcolm Mooney / No Doctors)
Tommy Rouse (Entrance)
Eric Cohen (Caroliner Rainbow)
Christopher Weingarten (ex-Parts and Labor)
Tim Evans (Bogan Dust
Ian Vanek (Japanther)
Chris Millstein (Jah Division)
Nick Ray (Golden Triangle)
Travis Chance (Usurp Synapse)
Michael Colin (Aa)

Via Pitchfork

Metric, Willie Nelson, Shudder to Think, and More

July 16, 2008 by Devorah Klein  

The rest of the summer and fall concerts are starting to come through en masse now, and many shows are going on sale this week. Those include:

Metric and Mates of State, August 7 @ Highline Ballroom. Tickets on sale Friday at noon.

Willie Nelson and Jakob Dylan, September 25 @ Radio City Music Hall. On presale this Thursday at 10 a.m., password is rosebud, on regular sale on Friday at 10 a.m.

Ray Lamontagne, October 11 @ Radio City Music Hall. On presale now thru 7/18, password is GRAIN.

Shudder to Think, October 4 @ Webster Hall. On sale Friday at noon.

Juliana Hatfield and Hayden, September 12 @ Bowery Ballroom. On sale Friday at noon.

Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, September 25 and 26 @ Mercury Lounge. On sale Friday at noon.

Joan as Police Woman, September 25 @ Bowery Ballroom. On sale Friday at noon.

Charlatans UK, October 14 @ Bowery Ballroom. Tickets on sale Thursday at noon.

Cesaria Evora and Madeleine Peyroux, October 3 @ Carnegie Hall. On sale Monday at 11 a.m.

All Points West Fest Has Initial Lineup

February 22, 2008 by Devorah Klein  

Coachella East aka All Points West has announced its initial lineup for its three-day festival taking place in Liberty Park Aug. 8-10.

Radiohead is headlining Friday and Saturday while Jack Johnson (ugh, I know) is on Sunday. The rest of the lineup so far is:

Underworld, Kings of Leon, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Cat Power, The Roots, The New Pornographers, Youssou N’Dour, Animal Collective, Andrew Bird, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Metric, CSS, Girl Talk, Chromeo, The Go! Team, Amadou & Mariam, The Black Angels, Sia, The Felice Brothers, K’Naan, Jason Isbell, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Alberta Cross, The Virgins, Black Kids, Mates of State, Duffy, Forro in the Dark, Nicole Atkins, Juana Molina, Little Brother, Rogue Wave, Neil Halstead and Your Vegas.

Tickets for All Points Wests go on sale Friday, February 29 at 12 Noon (ET) via ticketmaster only. Single day passes are $89 and three-day passes are $258. A portion of the event’s proceeds will benefit “Friends of Liberty State Park.” The Friends of Liberty State Park is an open space advocacy volunteer organization dedicated to the park’s future as a free, green and non-commercial, urban waterfront oasis.

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